The deadline is fast approaching for this year’s Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship’s seventh annual International Corporate Citizenship Film Festival. Entry in the Film Festival provides companies an opportunity to showcase using video as an effective vehicle to communicate CSR initiatives to stakeholders. Click here to learn more and submit your video by the February 27th deadline.

Last year’s Film Festival featured 66 video entries from Fortune 500 corporations and collected more than 60,000 votes on the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship web site. Video submissions covered a wide range of topics such as; STEM education, environment protection, water scarcity, volunteerism, child obesity, hunger and disaster response.

If you are currently using video to illustrate your company’s corporate citizenship message this is a great opportunity to share your story. The Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship’s annual Film Festival will provide an audience of thousands of viewers to whom you can demonstrate firsthand your company’s corporate citizenship successes. It also gives a unique and exciting opportunity to engage your employees, vendors, family and friends in the voting process.

Below are some important dates and information to keep in mind when submitting your video.

Submission: The submission has been extended until February 27, 2015 (5pm EST). Each company may submit one three-minute video for consideration in the contest. Entry is free for members of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship and $1500 for non-members. Click here to review the 2015 Film Festival FAQs.

Public Voting: Public voting will take place from March 2 through March 16 to narrow the field to ten finalists. Finalists will be announced on the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship website March 17.

Winners: The ten finalist videos will then be reviewed by an industry expert panel of judges who will select the winning video, which will be announced during the 2015 International Corporate Citizenship Conference, April 19-22, in Austin, Texas. In order to win a representative from your company must be in attendance at the conference (registration required), to register click here.

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